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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1969. *3
TILE PIRATES › MULTILATED THE BODIES
Murder
READERS who have followed this sorios By
will be aware that the earlier, name of Stanley was Chok Chu, and it is interesting because it was in that locality that a needless tragedy took place which became a cause celebre in Hongkong.
Most Fou
JOHN LUFF
you my pretty maid get him
nowhere.
He was not a British mibjeel. but he had a strong claira D the post. In
the fact i wes kind of poetic_fv.ties every one iles to soe. He was an Ameri- can, und his own brother had beci 'caught and killed by pirates shortly before these ex Three o'clock, the morning of come up for summary execution. February 26, 1941, and Captain
Neither did Government cn- He goes from door to door Da Costa and Lieutenant Dwyer tangle itself in red-tape. The right through the village, but have not returned to Stanley niceties of the situation were drawing a blank, he and Dwyer Camp Lieutenant MacDonald oblerved, and this American enter the innt house. Ifers an old takes out an armed search party, who served the British Govers- innn live with his wife and son but no trace of the officers can ment, in the oficial capacity of hangmem, seems to have made and daughter-in-law. The wife he discover. and daughter-in-law are cooling, Die Government Authorities quite a neat job of it. The son is out. The rest la u are informed, and Mr May and Three years Mter, in
ven at the trial, but it seems seed to Tylan to make enquiries, out of the way, cnother Ameri- evidence Mr Caldwell of the police pree that we get this macabre episode certala enough that Da Costa Meanwhile, a hundred Officers, can stopped in to oblige the Bri marie advances to the girl which NCOs and
men of the Ceylon tish Government. she resented, and the old mun Rifes: Pour the island. On interfered, Upon which, Da February 27, H.M.S. Fury sails They apparently did themselves very well, Costa takes his stick and beats round to Stanley. and Captain Da Costa was especially high-spirited, for he was 'boat happy' as we now say. Having drawn out the tiffim as long as the champagne lasted, the four decided that a stroll, while unwel come, was very necessary.
The whole episode which from this distance of time, we can view almost as a drama in three acts, opens in the quarters of Dr Tweddle of the Ceylonese Rifle Regiment. It is the afternoon of February 25, 1849, and three officers, Captain Da Costa of the Royal Engineers, and Lieutenants Dwyer and Grantham also of the Ceylonese Rifle Rogiment, are the guests of Dr Tweddle at a champagne tiffin,
The four started to walk from Apo, happened this very day to their quarters at Stanley towards be ashore at Wong-ma-kok. the village of Wong-ma-kok, an Act two would see the high- the level of the small peninsula spirited Captain Da Costa enter which divides Tylain Bay from the village accompanied by the Stanley Boy.
more cautious Dwyer, and here Do Carla gave, way to his exuberant spirits by a bit of Ligh-handed chaft.
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STAFF OF VICTORIA GAOL THEN
"The whole of the ffroceedings connected with the execution went of well, and were of a satisfactory ruture. The exécu- tion took place punctually and without mishap.
says
the re-
"Punctually" porter. Knowing Hongkong. I should say it is the caly per- formanco that has started on time.
On the evening of that day the In 1853 x Portuguese sco- body of Captain Da Gosta is men who had committed piracy found in the water, no trace of on the British ship, Herald, were taken and brought 10 court. Dwyer was over found.
and The prologue belongs to
They too, were convicted the The old man and woman run
e reprieve had actually states, "We whole proceeding to the door and give the warning lew. When searched, the village sentenced to death. Again, the tinte
Mr Calcrafl WIN been ordered, but the prisoner went off well" What an under- ery, "Save Life." Chul Apo, the of Wong-ma-kok was found to position of
vacont.
himself afterwards acknow- statement, when one considers pirate hears this cry, and im- be deserted save for the old man
Se a prisoner, E coloured ledged that he had been the the chief participants in the mediately rushes in with a orowe who had stood up to Da Costa.
American seaman was the spe- cook on the pirate funk, and --spectacle. of followers armed with spears. He said he did unt run away cessful candidate. He was te had taken part in the affair. with because he had done nothing warded by having the remainder DA Costa, champagne, snatches the spear wrong, and willingly followed of his prison term remitted. from Chui Apo's hands, and Tieutenant MacDonald back to
Ip reading through the breaks it across his knee This the barracks, trusting both to Supreme Court Notices, you and as a rash net, because it causes his innocence and British justies that in every session, there are Chui Apo to lose face in front of
The young girl, because of loss cases of piracy. They occur with his men, and from this moment of face, had hidden herself, but regular monotony, so I sheukt
she
came forward velun- Imagine that The taking of tarily at the inquest.
a pirate and his
was just execution uffair.
Certainly, the executions do not seem to have Interrupted the day's affairs for the Europeans, I suppose the Johnny Newcomes would go up to the Victoria gaol to see a topping ok, but no doubt the whole business was so cem- mon, that there was no novelty about it.
the officers are doomed,
The officers manage to get out of the hut, but are hotly pursued along the paths-where they are struck down.
For some reason which has never come out, but probably out of prudence with Captain Da Costa's condition, Dy Tweddl and Lieutenant Granthoin, de- cided to return, but ur Costu
It is dusic, but he insists upon and Dwyer went
paying a call on every house, luge of Wong-ma-kok.
greeting them with cardial The inhabitants of Stanley, exclamations, accompanied by rod Wong-mu-kok, and Tytam no cxaggerated old world Bay, were friendly enough It courtesy, stems, su lang as no one was lot. But of all things, the Chinese interested in "Thele uffairs. Ani delike mort is undie familierity their nifalts seem to have been and endearments from strangera, a slight interest in piracy. Ir Sc Captain Da Costa's chuck fact, the notorious pirate, Chui under the chin, and how are see,
impe
At the sight of blood, the pirates go into a kind of frenzy, and not content with killing the officers, they mullate the bodies, string them up on bamboo poles, and proceeding along the beach as far as a preetplec-“Bluff head"-hurl the bodies into the
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Six men were arrested on suspicion, and when they were brought to Victoria, they were kept in separate cells, so that they could not have "cooked" the evidence..
subsequent
Com-
JACOBY on BRIDGE
If you look at all four bands "The gallows was guarded-by
you will see that South's four The last point is the about 150 police under the comparatively another
anall crowd. The spade contract is a lead pipe
cinch. and of Captain Quin.
The population must have been spectators, numbering 2,000, around 100,000 by then. As 1 winewed the spectacle without said the event was too common any manifestation of feeling." to excite notice.
It is impossible to let that hit of reporting go by without com- meat. In the first place, it is not and as a report. It states fact,
Under the circumstances, all the evidence showed that the
Neither, of course, would t villagers were anxious to drive those rolsterers away, and that have the morbid atmosphere of that wo might with a litle more tact, Da Costa attraction and Dwyer might have got away imagine, for public hangings, unscathed,
while not so frequent by any means, were still the order, in
The Coroner's Jnry returned a England, verdict of wilful murder aguinat - the pirate Chut Apo, and several other unknown Chinese.
rirates Involved in the murder, and by a subsequent one, raised the reward to 2500.for the op- prehension of Chui Apo, and £100 for any of the other pirates concerned.
At any rate, here follows
a
and leaver oul comment.
The reporter notices briefly the crowd. apperent lack of feeling of the It is something that olt Europeans, Long puzzles before I considered this series, it was a question I had put to my Chinese friends, that expression- less face with eyes staring into infinity, and total disregard for the incidents around,
It is, of course, not lack of
The first suspicion that comes to my mind is, the number of petitioners who believed it to be a case of mistaken identity, That is still a good alibi. I wonder concern. It is " matier of whose relation the cook was, and control, the sequiescehen in the what pull he had to get so many
Inevitable.. signatures? I am not. cynical. Once the bad lads the Mandarin of Canton was making hard to
Was
Self-control is necessary to
NCSS.
ant gallows and ropes, and on to However, away with knives, were brighter things.
The Hongkong Governinen notice associated with one such, offered at Arst notification, a re-which took place In-Hongkcar
superior people, but to shoot. ward of £100 for the apprehen in July 1806. "Three pirates catel discovered a home here, who know not the Orient, t slon of one or more of the were publicly executed, There they simply flocked. It
zeems superficially, a total lack men were implicated in the pir- so had that the Mandarin at of concern amounting to callous- acy of the "Carl" Previous to Canton, who had no love for the the execution, numerous peti- British
regime, warned the tions were received from the Governor of Hongkong, against Chinese Rongs by the Governor certain old lags who Jór a reprieve of on of the pri sheltering here. And I am cor- It might be os well to add at somers on the ground that the tain that the Police would con- this stage at both the Hong petitioners believed that it was firm that many of their des kong and Canton authorities a case of mistaken identity. cendants are with us today, were anxious to interview Chui
My second point is, the de- Apo on matters other than this
nurder.
The story of Chul Apo's buttie' with the British fleet, and his subsequent capture al Canton be-- long elsewhere in this series. Here let it be said, he was brought to Hongkong for trial In 1851, and his end was mes! unpiratical. On hearing the verdiet, it stands as a land- mark in the fairness of British justice, that hearing of the pro- voking circumstances, he was found guilty of manslaughter.
He was sentenced to tran- sportation for life, which in fact his com- meant he could take pany elsewhere to be a plague both to man and beast. On hearing this, he asked for a death sentence, but the author!- ties, in view of the Jury's verdlet, were unable to accom- modate him.
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So, three days later, he took a Tope and handed himself in his cell, thus infileting on himaci! the punishment a British juru had considered too harsh in the light of the facts related at hita trial for murder,
In view of his record in this part of the world, Chul Apo deserved the fate he awarded himself, for his cage of pimey and murder was both terrible und long.
However, while on the subject of the punishment of pirates, there is a cortain grim humour In the following. In the year 1040, six pirates were captured, tried, and were found guilty of ́munier on the high seas. There could be no other verdlet thon that of "Strath.”
The hitch In the arrange.. ment was, there was no public executioner to carry
out the senterer But, in a relatively smaller Colony, news, carried even faster than it does nowa- days, and a volunteer came for- word.
FERDINAND
"In fact, so numerous were these petitioners that at one
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by East's ten but overruffed that should be all for the do- fall since South will fence bock on tite diamond finesse for his teath trick and as you can all plainly see the finess will work.
When the hand was aclunlly played South managed to co down. The play started nor- mally and East led the king of clubs at trick four, South took
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with dummy's are and started to run his trumps. West Jost no time discording his ten of clubs and Edst let go the deuce and lack of clubs.
.Then East started to throw diamonds. In ascending order except that he held back the nine and threw away the jack.
Now South had a problem. Obvlously East held the queen of clubs did he also hold the king of diamonds, South decided he did, went up with dummy's ace and lost the hand,
South had swindled himself neatly. I Enst did hold the king of diamonds West would have simply hung on to the clab ten and broken
up any club-dlamend squeeze against Eest.
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A-Fass. Two`no-trump might prove effective but the chancen are you will simply be getting yourself in trouble.
TODAY'S QUESTION Again your partner has opened one club and East has overcalled with one heart.
You, South, bold:
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